Purpose
Doctoral candidates who submit their dissertation for assessment within 3 years, or within 3½ years, from the start of their scholarship period will be offered a completion grant of 12 months or 6 months respectively. The purpose of the fellowship is to develop the candidate’s competence and thus serves as a period of qualification following the completion of the doctorate.
Agreement
- The doctoral candidate needs to apply to the department for a completion grant 6 months before the expected submission date. Send an email to the department’s PhD administrator and the Head of Research.
The doctoral candidate’s work duties include
- Research 50%
- Teaching 50%
Research
467 hours per semester. Examples of tasks:
- Participation in the planning and implementation of academic seminars and conferences
- Participation in the development of relevant research projects and/or applications for external funding
- Development of postdoctoral projects or other research projects
- Scholarly work building on the doctorate, e.g. writing academic articles
- Popularisation of one’s own research or other dissemination activities
Teaching
467 hours per semester. University pedagogy training is included in the teaching duties. Courses at LINK – Centre for Learning and Education start at the beginning of each semester.
Examples of tasks:
- Teaching
- Course responsibility
- Participation in assessment work
- Preparation of teaching plans and other academically relevant project work
- Development and implementation of evaluation schemes and other quality assurance work
For preparation and delivery of teaching, including supervision and assessment work, ordinary rates are used in accordance with the Guidelines for the implementation of the work obligation provisions at the Faculty of Humanities (in Norwegian).
What you are expected to do as a completion grant recipient
Once you have notified the department about your expected timely dissertation submission and your wish to apply for a completion grant, you will be invited to a meeting with:
Meeting 1: The Head of Research and the subject group leader to establish an overall plan for the completion grant period.
Meeting 2: Approximately two weeks after submission of the dissertation. The section leader and the study advisor will convene a meeting to decide the details of the teaching to be carried out during the completion grant period.